Apparently You Can Just Ask Me Stuff - Who Knew???

So here’s something that’ll make my fellow mystery fans shake their heads:
I’ve been on Goodreads for years — three Porter Beck books, countless dead bodies (fictional, mostly), a couple suspicious crop circles — and I just now discovered the “Ask the Author” feature.

That’s right. You could’ve been firing questions at me this whole time (some of you were!) :

“Where did Porter Beck come from?”

“How many bad guys does Columbo the dog actually take down?”

“Is The Blue Horse based on a real horse? Did it demand royalties?”

“Does Beck really have a ringtone that plays Taps?” (Yes, he does, and he’s not changing it.)

And I would’ve answered you. But instead, I sat here oblivious, nodding along like I had all the Goodreads stuff figured out. I did not.

So, my sincere apologies to every reader who thought, “Hey, I’d love to ask this Borgos guy a question,” only to find out I had that door bolted shut like a Nevada sheriff’s office during a UFO convention.

Good news: the door is open now. Ask me anything. The weirder the better.

Want to know how many cups of hot chocolate it takes to write a Porter Beck chapter?

Curious how close the real Nevada is to the fictional one?

Need to confirm whether Beck irons his jeans? (He does not. He’s not a psychopath.)

I’ll answer the best questions on my Goodreads page — so feel free to test my knowledge, my memory, or my ability to dodge spoilers with style.

Hit me up Ask the Author.

And thanks — seriously — for reading Beck’s stories, asking questions, and keeping this whole ride more interesting than I ever imagined. You folks are the real detectives.

#BetterLateThanNever